Child Participation Quotes

#1. I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.

Shailene Woodley

#2. Well, I looked my demons in the eyes
laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me.
You see, I've been to hell and back so many times,
I must admit you kind of bore me.

Ray Lamontagne

#3. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

#4. One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

William Winwood Reade

#5. The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Mary McCarthy

#6. Hope is the anchor for the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Helen Fisher

#8. Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes.

Philip Roth

#9. I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'

Pierce Brosnan

#10. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

David Suzuki

#12. The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them ... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Charles Kettering